Regular Season Opens with Home-and-Home Series vs. No. 16 Bowling Green – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/6/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
Oct. 6, 2015
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The regular season begins for the Ohio State men’s hockey team this weekend with a home-and-home series vs. No. 16 Bowling Green. The Buckeyes will host the Falcons at 7 p.m. Friday in Value City Arena in Columbus before the teams square off at 7:37 p.m. Saturday in BGSU Ice Arena in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Follow Along
• Both games will be streamed online, with Friday on BTN Plus and Saturday on WCHA.tv.
• The Ohio State radio broadcast will be over the air on 1460 AM in Columbus and through Buckeye Vision on OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
• Live stats will be available for both games, along with in-game updates on Twitter @OhioState_MHKY.
• All links can be found on the men’s hockey schedule page at OhioStateBuckeyes.com and on the team’s gameday page (go.osu.edu/mhkygameday).
Ticket Info, Family Four Packs Available
• Season tickets, four and eight game mini plans and group tickets are all on sale for the 2015-16 Buckeyes’ home slate. Fans interested should contact the Athletic Ticket Sales Office at 1-800-GOBUCKS (select option 2) or AthleticSales@osu.edu to speak with an Account Executive.
• Single game tickets are available online at OhioStateBuckeyes.com/tickets, at the Schottenstein Center Ticket Office and at the arena on game night.
• Again this season, Ohio State students are admitted free with a valid BuckID.
• For the game Friday vs. Bowling Green, Family Four packs are available and include four tickets, four hot dogs, four small sodas and four small popcorns for $36 (plus service fee). The package can only be purchased online (go.osu.edu/bgtix100915).
Buckeyes vs. Falcons
• All-time, Ohio State and Bowling Green have met 178 times (dating to 1966), with the Falcons ahead, 95-74-9, including 57-28-6 in Bowling Green. In Columbus, the Buckeyes have the advantage, 43-36-3. Eight of the last 10 games between the teams have been in Bowling Green and Ohio State is 5-2-3 in those 10 meetings.
• Ohio State and Bowling Green were founding members of the CCHA in 1971-72. The Buckeyes skated as an independent in 1973-74 and 1974-75, but rejoined in 1975-76 and remained in the league until it was disbanded in 2012-13. The teams skated as conference foes from the 1975-76 season through the 2012-13 campaign.
• Last year the teams split a home-and-home series, with each squad posting a 3-2 road win.
Buckeyes vs. Falcons in 2014-15
• The Buckeyes split a home-and-home series with instate foe Bowling Green Nov. 13-14, 2014, with each team scoring late to win 3-2 on the road.
• Game 1 (Ohio State 3, Bowling Green 2): Ohio State scored three late goals to down No. 19 Bowling Green, 3-2, Nov. 13, 2014 in BGSU Ice Arena in Bowling Green, Ohio. The Falcons scored the only goal of the first period at 8:41. The Buckeyes were outshot 17-12 in the first 40 minutes, including 11-4 in the second period. In the third, the Buckeyes tied the game at one at 15:28 on Matthew Weis’ goal and then went ahead 2-1 at 18:26 on a tally from Tyler Lundey. The Falcons tied the game just 18 seconds later (18:44), but Anthony Greco scored the gamewinner at 19:26, following a Weis faceoff win, to lift the Buckeyes to the victory.
• Game 2 (Bowling Green 3, Ohio State 2): Ohio State lost to No. 19 Bowling Green, 3-2, Nov. 14, 2014 in Value City Arena, with the Falcons scoring the gamewinner with 2:40 remaining in regulation, less than a minute after the Buckeyes had tied the game at two. The Buckeyes and Falcons were tied at 1 after the first period, with a Bowling Green goal at 10:59 and Josh Healey scoring for Ohio State at 15:28. The Falcons, who outshot the Buckeyes 10-1 in the second period, took a 2-1 lead with a 5-on-3 goal at 17:32 of the middle stanza. At 16:33 of the third, Nick Schilkey tipped a shot from Sam Jardine to tie the game at two all. Just 47 seconds later, Falcon Brandon Hawkins got to a loose puck in the neutral zone and scored on the fly, putting Bowling Green back ahead. The Buckeyes pulled goalie Christian Frey for the extra attacker with 1:19 remaining, and had chances on net, but were unable to convert.
Falcon Facts
• Bowling Green, under sixth-year head coach Chris Bergeron, enters the year ranked No. 16 in the USCHO poll after going 23-11-5 last season.
• The Falcons return 18 letterwinners from last year, including leading returning scorer Brandon Hawkins who had 16 goals and 30 points a season ago. In all, BGSU returns players who accounted for 103 goals in 2014-15, the fourth-most returning goal-scoring in the country.
• Bowling Green was second nationally in penalty killing last year, stopping 89.8 percent of its opponents attempts (141-of-157). On the year, the team averaged 3.05 goals a game while allowing 2.38 a contest.
• Bowling Green is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, where it is joined by Alabama Huntsville, Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, Bemidji State, Ferris State, Lake Superior state, Michigan Tech, Minnesota State and Northern Michigan.
Up Next
• The Buckeyes will take on another instate foe in a home-and-home series, as they face No. 11 Miami Oct. 16-17. The series opener will be in Columbus Oct. 16 at 7 p.m., with the finale in Oxford Oct. 17 at 8 p.m.
Coach Rohlik talked about the Buckeyes’ schedule that opens with 3 straight Top 16 teams. #GoBucks http://t.co/8rp4tlvbYT
— Ohio State M Hockey (@OhioState_MHKY) October 7, 2015
